Unbearable Creativity & Terrible Beauty
Inspiration and Stimulations for Your Vagus Nerve: AKA: YOUR GUT FEELINGS
Unbearable Creativity & Terrible Beauty
“You see, alcohol in Latin is spiritus and you use the same word for the highest religious experience as well as for the most depraving poison.”
–C. G. Jung’s letter to Bill Wilson in 1961, shortly before Jung’s death
Taken from the epigraph to Richard Rohr’s book Breathing Underwater
“Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.”
"Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."
—C. G. Jung
We crave encounters; we crave fire. Or rather: we crave those experiences that will set us on fire. But the time has come in which we need to re-create fire.
Gauntlet thrown.
You’re not inactive because you lack motivation, you lack motivation because you’re inactive. You don't need to feel inspired to start creating, you need to start creating to feel inspired. Action creates traction. All you need is to start and the rest will inevitably follow.
Tout bouge
To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time. – Leonard Bernstein
Shut off the ego. You are enough. Omnia extares.
Imagination expands the world. Just as economic growth and technological invention create new things in the world—things unknown since the beginning of time—so does language. We live, as the poet Robert Graves said, in a web of language. The bigger our web, the bigger our world.
It is easy to tell how you are doing in life. When you go outside, how beautiful is the flower? That is how you know.
– Brianna Wiest